mike777 Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Robin Williamshttp://www.eonline.com/news/568331/robin-williams-dead-at-63-oscar-winner-and-comedy-legend-found-dead-at-home-coroner-suspects-suicide?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-celebritynews&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_celebritynews Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Robin WilliamsBummer! My condolences to his family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 Lauren Bacall, Hollywood's Icon of Cool, Dies at 89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagles123 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Richard Attenborough died at 90 yesterday RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Comedienne Joan Rivers, at 81, due to complications that arose during elective surgery last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Comedienne Joan Rivers, at 81, due to complications that arose during elective surgery last week. Sad day she was funny and brought laughter into this world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted October 10, 2014 Report Share Posted October 10, 2014 Tony Priday (1922-2014) One of the legendary figures in English and British bridge, Tony Priday, passed away yesterday. I knew him best from the bridge magazines of the 1970s and 1980s when he played with Claude Rodrigue, a partnership that was almost as well known as Reese and Shapiro but without the controversy. I met him a few times in later years when he played less seriously, but just as competitively, and he was one of the friendliest and charming of elite bridge players, a gentleman of the old school. He played for England from 1955 to 2002 and won the Gold Cup seven times. Reading his bio on Wikipedia reminded me of the Grand Slam TV series that ran on the BBC for a short time in the 1980s, featuring a bridge match between GB and the USA. Tony was described by Jeremy Flint, a regular team mates, thus: "He is tall, grey-haired, distinguished and impeccably dressed ... He is also amusing, polite and might appear ripe to be mugged at the bridge table ... Beneath the velvet lurks a mind of iron ...". EBU Obituary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordontd Posted October 10, 2014 Report Share Posted October 10, 2014 Tony Priday (1922-2014) One of the legendary figures in English and British bridge, Tony Priday, passed away yesterday. I knew him best from the bridge magazines of the 1970s and 1980s when he played with Claude Rodrigue, a partnership that was almost as well known as Reese and Shapiro but without the controversy. I met him a few times in later years when he played less seriously, but just as competitively, and he was one of the friendliest and charming of elite bridge players, a gentleman of the old school. He played for England from 1955 to 2002 and won the Gold Cup seven times. Reading his bio on Wikipedia reminded me of the Grand Slam TV series that ran on the BBC for a short time in the 1980s, featuring a bridge match between GB and the USA. Tony was described by Jeremy Flint, a regular team mates, thus: "He is tall, grey-haired, distinguished and impeccably dressed ... He is also amusing, polite and might appear ripe to be mugged at the bridge table ... Beneath the velvet lurks a mind of iron ...". EBU ObituarySad news indeed. I last saw him at Bernard Teltscher's 90th birthday party, where he was one of two guests who were older than Bernard. He had a habit of looking at an assignment list and, knowing that he would be overheard by his next opponents, saying to his partner "Ah, I see we've drawn rather a strong team, we'll need to watch our step". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted October 10, 2014 Report Share Posted October 10, 2014 RIP Jan Hooks... Quite possibly my favorite SNL performer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonottawa Posted October 12, 2014 Report Share Posted October 12, 2014 David Hooks, murdered by police in Georgia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted October 21, 2014 Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 Raphael Ravenscroft, a name I didn't know, but I knew his music. He worked with several well known artists, but this sax playing is probably his best known work in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7--mbE05A4I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted October 21, 2014 Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 Oscar de la Renta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 Ben Bradlee, without whom Richard Nixon's cover-up of the Watergate break-in would not have come to light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterAlan Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 Alvin Stardust, glam rocker. I see that he briefly (c1973) performed as "Elvin Starr". That's the name that Reese and Flint later gave to the central character of "Trick 13" - it seems too unusual a name to be a coincidence, but I can't imagine how they came to pick it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinidad Posted October 25, 2014 Report Share Posted October 25, 2014 Jack Bruce, not so glam, but very much a rocker... Rik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbr Posted October 26, 2014 Report Share Posted October 26, 2014 Robert Wallace (died 10/06/2014) was head director in the American Bridge Association and directed many tournaments in the American Contract Bridge League also. He was 67. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted October 27, 2014 Report Share Posted October 27, 2014 Oscar Taveras, Cardinals' slugger, only 22 years old. One of the MLB's brightest prospects. Too young; RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Tom Magliozzi, either Click or Clack of NPR's "Car Talk" program, at 77. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Ray_Magliozzi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Tom Magliozzi, either Click or Clack of NPR's "Car Talk" program, at 77. http://en.wikipedia....d_Ray_Magliozzi These guys provided a strong echo from my early life. In my adolescence the garage at my home had a pit. A group of us would work on our various cars. Those were very happy days. Not one of those cars would pass legal inspection today. Even back then the law insisted that I fix up my 47 Plymouth to pass inspection. Impossible, so I bought another, same year and model,for thirty-five bucks. It had a shot engine and did an engine transplant and junked the one that was in trouble with the cops.. Yep, very happy days. My best wishes to his brother and others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted November 21, 2014 Report Share Posted November 21, 2014 Mike Nichols He directed many great movies including my all time favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted November 21, 2014 Report Share Posted November 21, 2014 Mike Nichols He directed many great movies including my all time favorite. This is the first I heard of it, I just got up. I clicked over to the Wikipedia. I admit I was not fully aware just how large his life really was. Among other errors, I thought he was, at least at one time married to Elaine May. In the Wik article, they have this comment on the Nichols-May years: They were invited to audition for Jack Rollins, who later became Woody Allen's manager and producer, and he was impressed, stating: "Their work was so startling, so new, as fresh as could be. I was stunned by how really good they were, actually as impressed by their acting technique as by their comedy. . . I thought, My God, these are two people writing hilarious comedy on their feet!" Don't ask me to recall any of their presentations, it's too far back, but the quote above from Rollins exactly captures the way I remember it. They were great, and they were not like anyone else. I see that they worked with Shelley Berman, another great. Anyway, thanks for the note. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted November 21, 2014 Report Share Posted November 21, 2014 Last night's Daily Show "Moment of Zen" (a little bit that they before the closing credits -- usually some reporter or politician doing something foolish, but occasionally a tribute) was a clip from an old Nichols & May routine. Nichols is also notable for being one of 17 "EGOTs" -- people who have won all 4 of the entertainment industry's major awards: Emmy (TV), Grammy (audio recording), Oscar (movies), and Tony (Broadway). He also has the most of these awards among EGOTs for whom all the awards were competitive (Barbara Streisand has 2 more awards, but her Tony was an honorary "Star of the Decade"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinidad Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 Joe Cocker Rik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 Donna Douglas, the actress most known for playing the giddy, goofy Elly May Clampett on "The Beverly Hillbillies," has died at age 81 according to several reports. It cannot be overstated what a phenomenon "The Beverly Hillbillies" was. Not only was the comedy the #1 series in America for its first two seasons, but the episode "The Giant Jackrabbit" remains one of the single most watched half-hours in sitcom history. Douglas was essential to the show's rollicking mix, and she remained friends with "Hillbillies" star Buddy Ebsen until his death https://tv.yahoo.com/news/rip-donna-douglas-check-elly-203600373.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtK78 Posted January 24, 2015 Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 Ernie Banks. Let's play two! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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